Case Study: Energy Company achieves fault-tolerant, scalable edge management and high-availability data ingestion with AWS IoT

Energy Company Needed a Fault-Tolerant, Scalable AWS IoT Greengrass Integration Solution

Energy Company faced a growing fleet of geographically dispersed edge devices that needed a scalable, fault-tolerant integration with AWS IoT Greengrass to manage and ingest data from local PLCs, plus comprehensive life‑cycle management across sites. The challenge was ensuring high availability and centralized control as deployments expanded, with AWS IoT technologies at the core of the architecture.

AWS IoT was supported by deploying EdgeIQ Orchestration for AWS on each AWS IoT Greengrass edge device, enabling failover to secondary devices, full device life‑cycle management, and PLC data ingestion. As a result, Energy Company gained high‑availability monitoring and management, seamless federation of data through AWS IoT Greengrass to AWS data analytics services, and automated software and configuration updates for every edge device.